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“She had such a need for the world to be different… For Varo, who envisioned the future with hope, such transcendence would rely on a combination of alchemy, ecology, mysticism, and science. In her painting she imagined a harmony between genders and a rediscovery of a female-centered spirituality that would lead to a higher consciousness, one that all could access.”

“By forming a complex symbolism of rebirth based on alchemy, esoterism, and the female body, she imagined possibilities for living in an alternate, woman-driven, and more spiritually centered world.”

“The artist must be clairvoyant: he must see that which others do not see; he must be a magician: must possess the power to make others see that which they do not themselves see.”

“If a wheel turns with sufficient velocity its spokes cannot be seen. Thus, the invisible beings that surround us could be seen by looking through a machine that slows down motion. They’re invisible because the substance they’re made of moves faster than our capacity to see.”

“I deliberately set out to make a mystical work, in the sense of revealing a mystery, or better, of expressing it through ways that do not always correspond to logical order, but to an intuitive, divinatory and irrational order.”